Plans to tackle misogyny in schools could take up to 20 years to have an impact on society, the safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, has said as she outlined measures to protect women and girls.
Phillips spoke the day after the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) estimated that 2 million women were victims of violence perpetrated by men each year in an epidemic so serious it amounts to a "national emergency".
One of Labour's five missions is to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, by targeting perpetrators and addressing the root causes of abuse and violence.
The minister for violence against women and girls said "Raneem's law" was already in the works, and would ensure police forces provide protection to victims of domestic abuse. But evidence that some of the government's policies are working – such as addressing misogyny among schoolchildren – could take years to emerge.
She said: "This is a societal problem. The data in the NPCC report speaks for itself. We have been declaring this a national emergency for as long as I can remember, really. This is going to take a long time.
"[Look at] prevention education and evidence-based models that cut this type of crime from being learnt – I probably won't be elected at the point when we can say that metric has worked. Because this about making something that will see benefits in 10 or 20 years' time."
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